Great OPENING lines from songs

[Monkster]

here, sitting in my room, with The Replacements and Husker Du, like a rebel without a clue
and the Beatles and the Stones get to hang out with Ramones
and the Pistols shunning fame, as they sing the old refrain
as they always will again, like 29 x the pain

I see Starz, and the moon is Big and Black, well there's a full Sheer Heart Attack
a-but the cheapest trick of all is when I hear that London call
I need something and I need it fast, I need Jason Scorching past
I need to feel they feel the same, 'cos when they almost know my name it's like 29 x the pain

The BEST BAND in the WORLD

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

The BEST BAND in the WORLD

Yes......Yes they are

 

[Lord Large]

I need to be myself
I can't be no one else
I'm feeling supersonic
Give me gin and tonic

The first lines from the first Oasis single. Consider the tone set.

 

[Pavilionaire]

"She loves you yeah yeah yeah" - Lennon and McCartney at their best.

 

[Monkster]

Eyes dried tight gotta get myself together
need a kickstart cocktail, ten percent coffee
with a high rise family size, guaranteed to catonize
the little bit of brain I got a-hanging on from last night

I need a double take, a-just to get awake
to try and counteract the hollow feeling nature makes
it's gonna work a treat, gonna get me on my feet
it's a teasing little tonic with a kick like a mule and a skip on the beat

 

[El Presidente]

Standing on the beach
With a gun in my hand
Staring at the sea
Staring at the sand
Staring down the barrel
At the arab on the ground
I can see his open mouth
But I hear no sound

 

[Buzzer]

OUTRAGEOUS, that was honestly the post I had in mind when I saw the thread title.

Believe it or not, me too.

My 2nd favourite:

I never thought it would happen with me and a girl from Clapham

 

[Lord Large]

I can't help thinking the 'opening line' part of this thread is fast becoming favourite 'first verse and chorus'...

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

The paper’s hanging off the walls
There’s ‘roaches dancing in the halls
You still pay your fortune to crawl down misery street
The euthanasia dream brigade
Are melting in the Hampstead shade
The zombies of life, they parade down misery street

 

[Titanic]

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you...

 

[Titanic]

I've paid my dues, time after time, I've done my sentence, but committed no crime...

 

[Monkster]

Gee, mister, you got the best answering machine message I ever heard

Drags me round all day just like a ball
On a chain or tooth pain
When I confess
I'm just a mess

 

[El Presidente]

Well you tried it just for once found it all right for kicks.
But now you found out that it's a habit that sticks.

 

[Titanic]

Hey, Mr Churchill comes over here to say we're doing splendidly...

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

If all the people in the world camped out in your back garden
Would you write and tell the king or would you grab a tent and join em
I can see that all the possibilities for freedom
Could just sway your first decision to subject them all to oblivion
And do you feel your life is threatened by fabricated stories
Dreamt up by the sons of campers that you killed back in the forties
I could see that all the possibilities for conflict
Could just back up your decision to subject them all to oblivion

 

[Monkster]

When i was just a little boy, i asked my father, what should I be?

 

[Monkster]

If all the people in the world camped out in your back garden
Would you write and tell the king or would you grab a tent and join em
I can see that all the possibilities for freedom
Could just sway your first decision to subject them all to oblivion
And do you feel your life is threatened by fabricated stories
Dreamt up by the sons of campers that you killed back in the forties
I could see that all the possibilities for conflict
Could just back up your decision to subject them all to oblivion

Another GREAT band

 

[Titanic]

Don't start that talking, I could talk all night
My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world to right...

 

[the hitman]

Now i reckon your about a 8 or a 9
Maybe evan 9 and a half in four beers time

 

[Monkster]

Well, i'm not the type to kiss & tell, but i've been seen with Farrah,
I've never been with anything less than a 9, so fine